[guest2143]

Some country's firewalls distrupt https, which makes downloading things via https difficult.

[tinus_hn]

So you create an non default http mirror for that minority, instead of making the majority insecure.

[DoctorOetker]

so if north korea is subjugating some poor souls over there, the whole world must suffer along? there could be a setting with a big warning to disable the default HTTPS behaviour...

[jamp897]

Which countries? I’ve only seen HTTP connections tampered with in practice, and China’s GFW blocks HTTP no different than HTTPS from what I’ve seen.

[eeZah7Ux]

Also some companies, to allow IDS to inspect traffic without having to extract keys from clients.